Commentary: Leave out women in the halal certifying industry at your own peril
This commentary is written by Dr. Umar Dar, MD, CEO of Canada-based Tuesday in Love Halal Nail Polish and Cosmetics. It is part of Salaam Gateway’s International Women's Day 2020 series that is co-designed and curated by Nyra Mahmood, MD of UK-based Simply Sharia Human Capital (SSHC LTD), the publishers of the 2016 report "Women in Islamic Finance & Islamic Economy”.
Islamic history teaches us a great deal of the numerous contributions made by women to society. From the earliest recorded times of the prophet Muhammad (PBUH), we see that women were active not only in the home, but as well as in business, politics, medicine, and various forms of engineering.
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Dr. Umar Dar